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坑

JLPT N1 7 strokes Frequency: #2040

Meanings

Pit, Hole

Radicals

土

Decomposition

⿰土亢

Etymology

Pictophonetic: earth

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 7

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

3 rising bottom-left-to-top-right

4 vertical right-to-left

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 diagonal right-to-left

7 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コウ kou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

29 words total

Other (20 words)

坑内事故こうないじこ

mine accident

坑道こうどう

tunnel

坑口こうこう

pithead

坑内こうない

within a pit or (mine) shaft

入坑にゅうこう

entrance into drift or pit

廃坑はいこう

closure of a mine

坑夫こうふ

miner

金坑きんこう

gold mine

銀坑ぎんこう

silver mine

斜坑しゃこう

inclined shaft

坑木こうぼく

mine timbers

立坑たてこう

shaft (e.g. in a mine)

坑儒こうじゅ

burying Confucian scholars alive

鉱坑こうこう

shaft

坑外こうがい

out of the pit

坑底こうてい

mine-pit bottom

開坑かいこう

opening of mine

pit (esp. of a mine)

横坑よここう

adit

坑内掘り炭鉱こうないぼりたんこう

underground coal mine

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